All Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International articles in November 2010 – Page 3
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ASB Logistics joins GPLN
November 18 - A multi-million dollar Chinese freight forwarder is the latest company to join the fast-expanding project forwarder group Global Projects Logistics Network (GPLN) and comes with the recommendations of two GPLN members for project cargo shipp
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Finnish heavylift handler group expands by acquisition
November 18 - Havator Group has acquired 100 percent of heavylift handler and crane operator BinSell i Uppsala to strengthen its operations in the Stockholm area.
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Wind up in Wilmington
November 17 - The first of four vessels carrying General Electric wind turbine blades arrived at the Port of Wilmington last week onboard Intermarine's Industrial Freedom.
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Lufthansa Cargo Charter names managers
November 17 - After filling the post of general manager the Americas a few weeks ago, Lufthansa Cargo Charter has now also been appointed general managers for Asia Pacific as well as for the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent.
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Helirig claims aerial heavylift first in UK
November 17 - UK helicopter service company Helirig managed to shave almost a month off the installation time of ventilation equipment on London's newest shopping destination in a first for the aerial heavylift industry in the UK.
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Prangl moves to power new heating plant
November 16 - Austrian heavylift and project equipment provider Prangl has worked for six months on one of Austria's most important power plant projects this year.
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TBS given six week repayment holiday by lenders
November 16 - TBS International has been given breathing space by its various lenders who will not be exercising their rights and remedies arising from TBS's failure to make principal payments when due. There will be no action against TBS from November 15
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New evidence gathering handbook from The Nautical Institute
November 16 - The UK's Nautical Institute has launched an important new influential loss prevention publication to help seafarers gather evidence in the event of accidents and incidents.
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New dawn for Shipping.dk
November 16 - Shipping line Shipping.dk has introduced a new tweendecker into service and is seeking traffic for the new ship.
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Software to help safe securing of heavylift cargo
November 16 - Dutch-based freight industry software house Global Cargo Care has introduced Visual Cargo Care, a new state-of-the-art software package for calculating acceleration forces, lashing and securing for loading of heavylift and project cargo.
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Vegetable oil plant moved by Wilhelmsen Ships Service Brazil
November 16 - A new department of Wilhelmsen Ships Service in Brazil which is gearing up rapidly to increasingly demanding cargo projects has successfully overseen the movement of an OOG shipment of a vertical conditioner to Russia.
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SR International Logistics returns to GPLN
November 15 - One of the first member companies of the Global Projects Logistics Network (GPLN) has returned to the fold, says the global network.
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It's the real thing as Hellmann puts the fizz into move
November 15 - Hellmann Worldwide Logistics UK is involved in shipping a Coca-Cola bottle washing machine from a brewery in Northampton to a new site in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, which sees the cargo being shipped in seven 40ft containers on three low-loade
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Pirates strike in Indian Ocean but leave empty-handed
November 15 - As a British couple were celebrating being released after a year's captivity by Somali pirates, the Indian navy was foiling an attempt to hijack a heavylift ship and saving 14 crew members.
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Joint promotion for COSCOL and Rotterdam
November 15 - The Cosco Shipping Company Limited (COSCOL) and the Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoR) are jointly going to promote and raise the handling of steel and heavy lift cargo via the port of Rotterdam.
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ISAF Sailing World Championships sets sail with DB Schenker
November 15 - The Sports Events team at Schenker Australia is moving approximately 350 boats and sailing equipment to Western Australia for the Perth International Regatta which will take place from 16 - 21 November 2010.
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Lifting works at second landmark Dutch road bridge project
November 15 - A Dutch road project has been crowned by a second landmark wooden bridge at Sneek, Netherlands in a heavylift operation this month on the A7 roadway.
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Full steam ahead for Rickmers-Linie shipment of railway cranes
November 15 - Three rail-mounted cranes manufactured by German manufacturer Kirow have been shipped from the Wallmann Terminal in Hamburg to a Chinese customer by project forwarder K
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Decline in heavy lift activity lowers Tiong Woon results
November 15 - Singapore-based Tiong Woon Corporation Holding has cited lower revenue contributions from its heavy lift and haulage, fabrication and engineering, marine transportation and trading segments as a factor in lower results for its 2010-2011 firs